Modern Wisdom
Episodes
#165 - Mike Michalowicz - Fix The Biggest Problems In Your Business
02 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Mike Michalowicz is an entrepreneur and an author. "An entrepreneur's biggest problem is they don't know what their biggest problem is" - hoooo boy if...
#164 - Dave Rubin - Going From Woke To Awake
30 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Dave Rubin is a political commentator, YouTuber & author. Politics is possessive, and as a thinking human you need a roadmap to guide your route out o...
#163 - Richard Shotton - Psychology, Advertising & Human Behaviour
27 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Richard Shotton is a behavioural scientist, Founder of Astroten and an author. One of my favourite guests returns today as we discuss mental models, p...
#162 - Dr Sam Spinelli - How To Design Your Perfect Warmup
23 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Dr Sam Spinelli is a Doctor of Physical Therapy and Strength & Conditioning Expert. The first thing you do before any workout is warm up, but understa...
#161 - Rob Henderson - Evolution & The Modern Dating Market
20 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Rob Henderson is a PhD candidate at the University of Cambridge and a US Air Force Veteran. The modern dating market is hard to navigate, our genetic ...
#160 - Michael Blevins - A Conversation Not About Fitness
16 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Michael Blevins is a coach, podcaster and part of the team who trained some of Hollywood's biggest stars for screen. Expect to learn why exercising is...
#159 - Michael Malice - David Icke, Conspiracies & Cuddle Club
13 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Michael Malice is an author, political commentator & podcaster. In case you didn't know, me and Michael are now best friends after our first episode a...
#158 - Catch Up 104
09 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Jonny & Yusef from PropaneFitness.com join me for a highly requested Catch Up episode. No agenda, no specific topics, just us 3 discussing life. Expec...
#157 - Ben Greenfield - The Ultimate Daily Routine
06 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Ben Greenfield is a Coach, Author, Speaker, ex-Bodybuilder and Ironman Triathlete. We are what we repeatedly do. So when you have every known biohacki...
#156 - Scott Barry Kaufman - The New Science Of Self Actualisation
02 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Scott Barry Kaufman is a Psychologist at the Columbia University, a writer and podcaster. The world has quantifiable metrics of success, our objective...
#155 - Steven Fawcett - Understanding Fitness As A Competitor
30 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Steven Fawcett is a 3 Times CrossFit Games Athlete and Head Coach of JST Compete. How to become fit and how to use that fitness in a competitive envir...
#154 - Jason Calacanis - How Does Angel Investing Work?
26 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Jason Calacanis is an angel investor and podcaster. I'm constantly hearing stories of how people are making their millions and billions angel investin...
#153 - Isolation Hacks 101
23 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Jonny & Yusef from PropaneFitness.com join me for a special remote-recorded episode. The world is in shutdown and lifestyles have changed dramatically...
#152 - Lydia Denworth - Understanding Friendship
19 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Lydia Denworth is a writer and Contributing Editor for Scientific American. It's cliche to say that we're more connected than ever but have never felt...
#151 - Morgan Housel - What Has Covid-19 Done To The Economy?
16 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Morgan Housel is a writer and investor. Markets are down 25% and the biggest single day market move in recent history was due to the Coronavirus Outbr...
#150 - Derek Sivers - Making Decisions, Achieving Excellence & Finding Meaning
12 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Derek Sivers is a writer, entrepreneur & musician. Derek's episodes on The Tim Ferriss Show are some of my all time favourites so I was super excited ...
#149 - Dr Eric Feigl-Ding - Just How Bad Is COVID-19?
09 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Dr Eric Feigl-Ding is an Epidemiologist at the Harvard Chan School of Public Health and Senior Fellow at the Federation of American Scientists. The Co...
#148 - Jason Stapleton - How To Survive The 21st Century
05 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Jason Stapleton is a former Force Recon Marine, investor and coach. The impending AI automation takeover is nearly here. If we're not careful we'll al...
#147 - Danny T - DJ Life, Building A Personal Brand & Mental Health
02 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Danny T is a DJ and producer. Expect to learn... How do you go from being a local DJ to touring Europe and selling out arenas? What are the principles...
#146 - Dr Heather Berlin - Considering Consciousness
27 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Heather Berlin is a cognitive neuroscientist and Professor of Psychiatry at the Icahn School of Medicine. All humans have a subjective experience of r...
#145 - Life Hacks 111
24 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Jonny & Yusef join me as our most popular series returns! Here we go with another Life Hacks episode as we detail our favourite apps, websites, resour...
#144 - Martin Schmalz - Artificial Intelligence, Big Data & China
20 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Martin Schmalz is a professor of Finance at Oxford University and an author. We're receiving constant warnings about the advent of Artificial Intellig...
#143 - John Assaraf - Understand Your Emotions & Take Control Of Your Life
17 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
John Assaraf is an author, entrepreneur and mindset expert. Our brains are the most complex organisms in the known universe, but they don't come with ...
#142 - Morgan Housel - How To Create & Manage Your Personal Wealth
13 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Morgan Housel is a writer and investor. Understanding the basics of money management is something none of us are taught but all of us need. Today we g...
#141 - Ryan Fischer - The Life Story
10 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Ryan Fischer is a multi-sport athlete, coach & gym owner. Ryan is one of the most interesting characters in fitness. From being among the top BMXers o...
#140 - Michael Malice - Dating, Cheetos, Liquor, Biden, Bernie & Fitness
06 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Michael Malice is an author, political commentator & podcaster. What happens if Biden or Bernie end up going head to head with Trump in 2020? Who crea...
#139 - Chelsea Ferguson - £10,000,000 From Selling Nudes
03 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Chelsea Ferguson is the founder of AdmireMe.vip. We're constantly being told that you can be anything you want and if you discover your passion in lif...
#138 - James Altucher - Treat Your Life As An Experiment
30 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
James Altucher is a chess master, writer, entrepreneur, investor, podcaster and comedian. Overcoming our life's natural inertia is hard. We overplan, ...
#137 - James Altucher - How To Improve Every Day & Harness The Power Of Ideas
27 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
James Altucher is a chess master, writer, entrepreneur, investor, podcaster and comedian. Everyone talks about compound improvements being the key to ...
#136 - Tucker Max - Personal Growth, Dating & Psychedelics
23 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Tucker Max is an author, speaker and the Co-Founder of Scribe. How do you go from being a professional asshole to a dad? From beer bongs to boardrooms...
#135 - Kamal Ravikant - How Loving Yourself Can Save Your Life
20 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Kamal Ravikant is an investor and writer. Do you love yourself? Do you even like yourself? The body and mind you inhabit is the only one you're going ...
#134 - Seth Stephens-Davidowitz - How Much Does Google Know About Me?
16 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Seth Stephens-Davidowitz is a former Data Scientist at Google and a writer. There are things which you write into Google which you have never told ano...
#133 - Roderic Yapp - Lessons From Afghanistan & Capturing Somali Pirates
13 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Roderic Yapp is a business coach and former Royal Marines Officer. What was it really like to be on the front lines in Afghanistan? How do you recaptu...
#132 - Charlotte Fox Weber - Do I Need Therapy?
09 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Charlotte Fox Weber is the Head of Psychotherapy at The School Of Life. Therapy is a term that comes with a lot of baggage. It's seen as a last ditch ...
#131 - What I Would Tell My 18 Year Old Self
06 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Jonny & Yusef join me for the first episode of the new year as we ask each other what would we tell ourselves 10 years ago. If you were given a 30 sec...
#130 - Keith Cooper - The Contact Paradox: Where Are All The Aliens?
30 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Keith Cooper is the Editor of Astronomy Now and an author. Why is searching for aliens so hard? How would they contact us? How would we decode a messa...
#129 - Christmas Special - Hacks, Fails & Lessons From 2019
23 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Jonny & Yusef from Propane Fitness join me for a special Christmas edition end of year recap. In 2019 what did we love, what did we hate, what did we ...
#128 - Benjamin Dennehy - The UK's Most Hated Sales Trainer
19 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Benjamin Dennehy is a sales trainer. Being able to sell is a skill many people want. The ability to control your income by selling things for other pe...
#127 - Koen Smets - The Behavioural Economics Of How We Spend Our Time
16 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Koen Smets is a behavioural economist and professor. We've been told "time is money" for all our lives, but how does time RELATE to money? We can't sa...
#126 - Sean Carroll - The Problem With Quantum Mechanics
12 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Sean Carroll is a theoretical physicist, podcaster and author. Quantum physics is complicated. The quantum world does not operate like the one we see ...
#125 - How To Become An Online Coach
09 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Jonny and Yusef from PropaneFitness.com join me today as we talk about how to become an online coach. The opportunity to work from anywhere in the wor...
#124 - James Lindsay - Social Justice Explained: The Foundations Of Wokeness
05 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
James Lindsay is an author & researcher. I've been exposed the words Social Justice Warrior, Wokeness and Post Modernism a lot over the last year, but...
#123 - Sobriety 101 - Why Sobriety?
02 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Jonny & Yusef from PropaneFitness join me for a new series. Over the last 3 years I've spent more than 24 months sober. Choosing to not drink when you...
#122 - Buster Benson - How To Argue With Someone
25 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Buster Benson is an entrepreneur & writer. How do we have a productive disagreement with another person? The art of conversing with someone to create ...
#121 - Brian Mackenzie - How To Breathe Properly
18 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Brian is the Creative Director at Power Speed Endurance. We all breathe, but are we doing it right? The breath controls much more than we might realis...
#120 - Professor Paul Bloom - What Do BDSM & Meditation Have In Common?
14 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Paul Bloom is an author and a Professor of Psychology at Yale. Why is suffering a cause of pleasure for some people? What do BDSM, being robbed, extre...
#119 - Kelly Starrett - Getting Better At The Game Of Life
11 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Kelly Starrett is a CrossFit trainer, physical therapist, author and speaker. Expect to learn what Kelly thinks about the Game Changers documentary, h...
#118 - Dr Larry Sanger - Why Is Wikipedia Broken?
07 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Dr Larry Sanger is the ex-founder of Wikipedia. Wikipedia is almost a public utility now, like water or energy. It's one of the most visited sites on ...
#117 - Aubrey Marcus - What Makes A Good Life?
04 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Aubrey Marcus is a podcaster, author and CEO. I wanted to find out how Aubrey defines living a good life, and how he structures his world to ensure th...
#116 - Sanjay Rawal - 3100 Miles: The Longest Race On Earth
31 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Sanjay Rawal is an award-winning filmmaker. Today we learn about the longest race on earth which takes place in the middle of New York around a squa...
#115 - Life Hacks 110
28 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Jonny & Yusef join me again for another Life Hacks episode as we detail our favourite apps, websites, resources and tools for a productive and efficie...
#114 - Sonny Webster - Bad Days, Good Days & Staying Resilient
24 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Sonny Webster is a weightlifter and online coach. Some days you're feeling it, some days not so much. All of us have good and bad periods to contend w...
#113 - Alex Hutchinson - Analysing Eliud Kipchoge’s Sub-2 Hour Marathon
21 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Alex Hutchinson is a journalist, athlete and author. Eliud Kipchoge recently rocked the world by breaking the previously unthinkable 2 Hour Marathon R...
#112 - Brett Jones - What Is Strength?
17 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Brett Jones is the Director of Education at Strong First. For every article suggesting one-per-week heavy lifts there's another advocating daily top e...
#111 - Cristoph - Life Behind The Decks - Mental Health As An International DJ
14 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Cristoph is a DJ and producer. Being a world star international DJ playing to thousands of screaming fans, having songs in the #1 spot and touring the...
#110 - Dr Sarah Jones - The Future Of Virtual Reality
10 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Dr Sarah Jones is an immersive storyteller using AR, VR and 360. For the last 50 years or so, storytelling hasn't massively changed its form, but with...
#109 - Douglas Murray - The Price Of Thinking Out Loud
07 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Douglas Murray is a journalist, author and an associate editor of The Spectator. What is the price of thinking out loud about the most inflammatory t...
#108 - Peter Frankopan - The New Silk Roads
03 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Peter Frankopan is a Professor of Global History at Oxford University, Director at the Oxford Centre for Byzantine Research and an author. In the west...
#107 - Graeme Garrard - How To Think Politically
30 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Graeme Garrard is a Teacher at Cardiff University & Harvard Summer School and an author. Why do we need politics? And who are the individuals that h...
#106 - Business Principles 102 - Should I Work For Myself?
26 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Jonny & Yusef from PropaneFitness.com join me for another Business Principles episode. Today we're talking about one of the questions we're most commo...
#105 - Thomas Johnson - What Is An Ethical Hacker?
23 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Thomas Johnson is an ethical hacker and social engineer. Hacking is often thought of as a dark art. Dark basements and illegal activities. But there's...
#104 - Nir Eyal - How To Control Your Attention And Become Indistractable
19 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Nir Eyal is an author, business owner and Teacher at the Stanford Graduate School of Business and Design. What would life be like if we didn't get dis...
#103 - Cosmic Skeptic - Veganism, Atheism and Morality
16 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Alex O'Connor aka Cosmic Skeptic is a YouTuber and Student at Oxford University. How many people go vegan due to a philosophical debate? And how many ...
#102 - Frank Dikotter - How To Be A Dictator
12 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Frank Dikotter is a historian and author. The 20th Century was characterised by an attempt on the one hand to build up civil society and have cheques ...
#101 - Sienna Day - What Is Life Like As A Pornstar?
09 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Sienna Day is a pornstar. Kind of like chicken nuggets, everyone is familiar with porn but few of us understand how it's made. Today we get to find ou...
#100 - Episode 100 Special Edition Q&A
05 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Jonny & Yusef join me for a special edition Q&A to celebrate 100 episodes of Modern Wisdom. Expect to learn... everything that the internet wanted to ...
#099 - Chris Sparks - Productivity Without Limits
02 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Chris Sparks is a productivity coach, founder of The Forcing Function and a Former Top 20 Worldwide Online Poker Player. What happens when a world fam...
#098 - Mike Winnet - The Contrepreneur Formula Exposed: Behind The Scenes
29 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Mike Winnet is an entrepreneur and a professional Get Rich Quick ad clicker. The people who made the real money in the gold rush weren't digging for g...
#097 - Andrew Doyle - Who Is Titania McGrath?
26 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Andrew Doyle is a writer and comedian. Titania McGrath is now fully established as the Queen of the internet Woke Movement and today we get to meet th...
#096 - Zuby - Strength, Faith and Survival Tactics
22 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Zuby is a rapper, author and podcaster. Zuby exploded onto the internet earlier this year and after a number of months being mentioned on the biggest ...
#095 - George MacGill - Mental Models 102 - The Decision Strikes Back
19 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
I'm joined by long time friend of the show and all round great human George MacGill to re enter the world of Mental Models. Mental Models are tools yo...
#094 - Brian Carroll - What Does It Feel Like To Squat 1000lbs?
15 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Brian Carroll is a coach, author and multiple world record holding powerlifter. Brian is one of the strongest men on the planet, having squatted 1000l...
#093 - Roger McNamee - Is Facebook Zucked?
12 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Roger McNamee is a businessman, investor, musician and founding partner of the venture capital firm Elevation Partners. Roger has had a front seat to ...
#092 - Scott H Young - Ultralearning
08 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Scott H Young is a blogger, programmer and author. Learning new things is hard. Learning new things quickly is even harder. So how did Scott manage to...
#091 - Richard Shotton - Some Very Important Effects In Advertising
05 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Richard Shotton is a behavioural scientist, the Founder of Astroten and an author. What is the reason that restaurants don't put £ signs in front of ...
#090 - Dr Taylor Burrowes - A PhD In Relationship Advice
01 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Dr Taylor Burrowes is a Doctor of Marriage, Couples and Family Counselling. After working for 14 years as a mental health counsellor and marriage an...
#089 - Professor David Carroll - Netflix's The Great Hack: Behind The Screens
29 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
David Carroll is an associate professor at Parsons School of Design. The Great Hack is one of my favourite documentaries of 2019 and today we get a fa...
#088 - Nat Eliason - The Five Best Books You've Never Read
25 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Nat Eliason is the founder of GrowthMachine.com and the host of the Made You Think Podcast. Nat likes to read and think. Today we get to hear his five...
#087 - Life Hacks 109
22 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Jonny & Yusef join me again for another Life Hacks episode as we detail our favourite apps, websites, resources and tools for a productive and efficie...
#086 - Teemu Arina - The Biohacker's Biohacker
15 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Teemu Arina is a technology entrepreneur, author and a leader in the field of biohacking. The Biohacker's Handbook is one of my favourite resources o...
#085 - Professor Nicholas Christakis - How Evolution Shaped Our Societies
08 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Nicholas Christakis is a Professor at Yale University and an author. Much of what I've covered on the podcast has focussed on evolution's effects on t...
#084 - David Epstein - Specialisation Is For Insects
01 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
David Epstein is a New York Times Best Selling Author and Investigative Journalist. Specialising early and hard is a frequent piece of advice I hear g...
#083 - Business Principles 101
24 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Jonny and Yusef from PropaneFitness.com join me for the start of a brand new series. We're talking all things careers and entrepreneurship as we call ...
#082 - Caleb Jones - How Does A Non-Monogamous Marriage Work?
20 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Caleb Jones is an online coach, blogger and non-monogamy advocate. Statistically, most marriages end in divorce. This limited life span for the tradit...
#081 - Dr Stuart McGill - Why Do Our Backs Hurt?
17 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Dr Stuart McGill is a professor emeritus at the University of Waterloo and a world expert in back pain. Dr McGill has worked with some of the best at...
#080 - Stephen Wolfram - The At Home CEO
13 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Stephen Wolfram is the founder and CEO of the software company Wolfram Research. What happens when you track every email, every keystroke, every mouse...
#079 - Laura Vanderkam - Why Does Time Pass More Quickly As You Get Older?
10 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Laura Vanderkam is a writer, author, speaker and an expert on time management. We are all familiar with the phenomenon that is time, it passes at the ...
#078 - Robert Greene - The Laws Of Human Nature
06 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Robert Greene is a New York Times best selling author. You can be a genius in your field and know all the things you need to know, but if you're bad w...
#077 - Dominic McGregor - Sobriety And The Future Of Social Media Marketing
03 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Dominic McGregor is the COO and Co Founder of Social Chain. Today I'm sitting down with Dom to catch up after we first spoke on Modern Wisdom 12 month...
#076 - David Pearce - Transhumanism; How Biotechnology Can Eradicate Suffering
30 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
David Pearce is a co-founder of Humanity+ and a prominent figure within the transhumanism movement. Where is the future of the human race heading? Wil...
#075 - Life Hacks 108
27 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Jonny & Yusef join me again for another Life Hacks episode as we detail our favourite apps, websites, resources and tools for a productive and efficie...
#074 - Tiago Forte - The Definitive Guide To Digital Productivity
23 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Tiago Forte is a blogger, company owner and productivity coach. We all use digital tools, and some of us spend most of our lives at their mercy. Today...
#073 - Theo Watt & Eve Young - The Problem With Millennials
20 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Theo Watt and Eve Young are the hosts of the Socials Minds Podcast and Copywriters at Social Chain. We talk about millennials and Gen Z like homogenou...
#072 - David Perell - The Power Of Writing
16 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
David Perell is a podcaster, blogger and writing coach. Why is the ability to write effectively the biggest opportunity which individuals can capitali...
#071 - Catch Up 103 - The End Of The World, CrossFit and Pirates of the Caribbean
13 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Jonny & Yusef from PropaneFitness.com join me again as we continue our Catch Up series. No agenda, no specific topics for us to cover, just us talking...
#070 - Tim Briggs - How To Eat For Performance
09 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Tim Briggs is a nutritionist, CrossFit coach and the owner of WeDominateNutrition.com Most people with a gym membership have an idea of how to eat to ...
#069 - George MacGill - Mental Models 101 - How To Make Better Decisions
06 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
I'm joined by long time friend of the show and all round interesting individual George MacGill to break down how we can make better decisions in all a...
#068 - Rachel Kleinfeld - Fixing The Most Violent Countries On Earth
02 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Rachel Kleinfeld is a senior fellow of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, and the founding CEO of the Truman National Security Project. H...
#067 - Inside Tracker - The Largest Database Of Healthy People In The World
29 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Inside Tracker are a company from Boston MA who provide bloodwork analysis to athletes and the general public. The world is increasingly moving toward...
#066 - Professor David Sinclair - Can Humans Live For 1000 Years?
22 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
David Sinclair is a Professor in the Department of Genetics at Harvard Medical School and co-Director of the Paul Glenn Centre for the Biological Mech...